NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2807, 6 November 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Three orphans sisters —the Misses Mary, Lily, and Teresa .Joyce—were all married at the same time at St.' Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Blackburn.

The two official pawnshops of Berlin arc doing a. heavy business, 50 marks being the highest, sum advanced, no matter how valuable the article pledged. One of America’s leading child specialists states that children of small families are better equipped mentally than those of large families. The great danger attendant upon cuts on the feet and hands is once more evidenced by the death at the Waikato Hospital on Tuesday evening of Mr. Charles Gibson, aged 58, proprietor of the Waihou Hotel. A few days ago Mr Gibson stepped on a rusty nail, which pierced hir? foot. He paid little heed to the puncture, with the result that some hours later lockjaw set in, and he was promptly removed to the Waikato Hospital, where he died, as stated, on Tuesday evening. "llow old is the obtest of you)' children !” inquired Mr. W.' .). King of a judgment debtor at the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, yestei'da.v. ‘“.Oh, she’s 22. and if she’d had the run of luck I expected she would have been off my hands by now.” This allusion to the failure of his daughter’s love affairs caused much laughter, which was renewed by the answer given to counsel’s next question. How old are the other

children?” asked Mr. King. “1 don’t know,” witness replied. “You had better ask my lawyer.” “In the Middle Ages wages were regulated by Act of Parliament,” declared the Rev. Father Holbrook, at the Labour demonstration at Auckland on Monday, “and though they may seem small compared with those of to-day, 1 venture to say that the social conditions of the thirteenth century compared more than favourably with our own. Tn support of his contention, the speaker stated that at one period during that century a yard of russet broadcloth cost' 1/1, the finished coat 2/'ti. a fat sheep 1/2. and a fat goose 2Ad. He brought his illustration, however, to an hilarious climax by adding that the best English ale in those days cost Id per gallon. “May those days come again,” he added, a sentiment which (reports the “N.Z. Herald”) was almost lost in thunderous applause.